What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

They will hire you IF you come with a positive attitude toward
your aging. For example, thinking of your current age not in terms of
work but in terms of music—particularly a symphony. A symphony,
traditionally, has four movements, as they’re called. So does Life.
There is the first movement, infancy; then the second movement, the
time of learning; the long third movement follows, the time of
working; and finally, a fourth movement. It is traditionally spoken of,
in terms of work: hence, we call it retirement. It is much better to
think of it as the Fourth Movement, a triumphant, powerful ending to
the symphony of our life here on Earth. Go listen to Beethoven’s
Third Symphony, the Eroica; and
They will hire you IF you convey energy, even in this period of
your life. Ask any employer what they are looking for, when they
interview a job candidate who is fifty years or older, and they will tell
you: energy. Okay, but where shall we find energy, after fifty? When
we were younger, energy came from the physical side of our nature.
We were “feeling our oats,” as they say. We could go all day, and all
night. “My, where do you get all your energy?” our grandmother
would ask us. We were a dynamo of physical energy. But after fifty,
physical energy may be harder to come by, despite workouts,
exercise, and marathons. Increasingly, our energy must spring not
from our muscles but from our excitement about Life; there are
inevitably some employers dying to have that excitement in their
organization; and
They will hire you IF you have done some life/work planning, and
you know alternative ways to describe who you are and what you can
do, because you did the homework on Who You Are, in chapter 8;
and
They will hire you IF you keep going on interviews until you
encounter an employer or two who isn’t prejudiced about your age.
What do I mean by keep going? Well, here is one successful jobhunter’s
actual records (the “process” she is referring to, is Daniel
Porot’s PIE Method, described at the end of this chapter):
Here are the figures you wanted: In the course of my surveying,
September through November, I was referred to 120+ people. Of
these I contacted 84 and actually met with 50. I met most people at
their offices, a few for lunch, a couple for dinner, and one for